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18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field. 19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face because of hard work, until you return to the ground, because you were taken from the ground. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

20 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

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18 It will produce thorns and thistles(A) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.(B)
19 By the sweat of your brow(C)
    you will eat your food(D)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(E)

20 Adam[a] named his wife Eve,[b](F) because she would become the mother of all the living.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:20 Or The man
  2. Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.